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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.) Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network.

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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PSA screening: shared decision making is a flawed approach

Common Sense Family Doctor

In early 2020, I accepted an invitation to participate in a live debate with a nationally prominent academic urologist at the annual scientific meeting of the American Society for Men's Health. But over the past 5 years, I have watched with increasing dismay as family physicians and urologists (mis)interpreted the U.S.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

6 This graph shows the association between primary care physician density and life expectancy among US states: 3. Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending.

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

Primary health care workers are a critical component of immunization services, a part of preventive health services. There are 44 family health centers, including 158 family physicians and 165 family health workers working in the district. Jour Turk Fam Phy 2020; 11 (1): 95-101. BMC Fam Pract.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Most family physicians have at some point heard the old saw "jack of all trades, master of none," which I have come to view as less insulting than is usually intended. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care.